Grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, boyfriends, siblings; we all knew someone who once was a huge part of our world, and then we had to suddenly re-adjust without them. So this is for them, the ones that got away, too a better place as we all like to say.

To you: "There are so many things I would've told you if I had one last day. Like how your laugh literally made my heart overflow with joy and lust. How contagious your smile was and how many people who you affected positively. How proud I was of you and everything you had done. I would've told you everything and the thought of closure wouldn't still be tugging at my mind until this point in time."

There's a special sort of pain accompanied with losing a loved one, and nobody can really ever understand what you've been through unless they are you. Not to say when losing someone support isn't appreciated, it's just a little disheartening because nobody understands EXACTLY how you feel, and I'm sure you know what I mean.

Now I could tell you a thousand different quotes or sayings that are associated with losing someone, like "live with that person in your heart" and "make them proud," but I'm not going to tell you what you've heard a million times. To say the least these sayings are completely okay and might make us feel a lot better, but going through an experience like this teaches a person a lot of great things. It punches at the walls of us breaking down at all the wrong moments and pulls at your heart strings when everything might remind you of that person on the daily.

Losing someone teaches you how to be strong. But if you're reading this, you already know that. Your brain and body instructed you to carry on from what might have one of the most painful days of your entire life. Did you realize that?

So, one thing I've learned from losing someone is this: sometimes when you meet people they take a piece of you with them wherever they go, and they might just leave permanently with it. So cry, be angry, be lonely, and miss that person every day if you need, it's okay.

To you: "I hope you know I still miss you and love you, but I am okay. You might still have a piece of me with you, and I will never fill that spot, but I am happy."